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'''Topaz''' is a 1969 [[Spy Fiction|spy film]], directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], based on the 1967 book of Leon Uris. Loosely based on the events leading to the [[History of the Cold War|Cuban Missile Crisis]] of 1962.
The year is 1962. In Copenhagen, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer defects to the West with his wife and daughter. He informs the [[CIA]] that the Soviets are positioning missiles in Cuba. (In real life, they were intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States). André Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), a French agent, is assigned to further investigate the matter. He first has to get to New York City and
Fortunately, his daughter Michelle Devereaux ([[Claude Jade]]) has just married journalist Francois Picard (Michel Subor). They are going to New York for their honeymoon and André joins them without drawing suspicion to himself. The embassy is in Harlem and André is unable to pass as a local. He is apparently too white for that. Philippe Dubois (Roscoe Lee Browne), a black agent, is the one to infiltrate the embassy and take photos of significant documents. With the documents at hand, Deveraux next flies to Cuba, getting in touch with his local mistress Juanita de Cordoba ([[Karin Dor]]).
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* [[Cold War]]: Right in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* [[The Empire]]: The Soviet Union as depicted here.
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